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I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#any #believe #country #dig #everyone

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#arts #become #expected #immediately #nation

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#coming #concerning #day #earth #former

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#corn #dear #distress #grew #land

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#competing #curiosities #divorced #facts #isolated

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#around #far #fewer #higher #industry

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #beings #brad #brad pitt #capable

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#audiences #been #build #characters #could